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• 11/19/2009 8:38 AM Gaston Couch wrote:
  ToysPeriod.com reports of a student who is a senior at Linda Christas College who has a developed a game that is a new and multidimentional approach to assisting students with autism, dyspraxia, dyscalculia and a variety of other conditions.
  
  Evidently the student himself was subject to literally all of these, and, based on his experiences, developed the game. Sort of, instead of the "experts" developing "remedies" from the outside-in with imperfect understanding, having someone who has experienced the conditions take a turn at bat....literally, since the game is based on the rules of baseball and Klondike. (One doesn't need to know a thing about either to start though.)
  
  Anyway, ToysPeriod is just taking input to be forwarded to the student.
  
  The game won't be available until the end of this academic year.
  
  Evidently, the student is looking for financial backers....isn't everyone.
  
  ToysPeriod was willing to give the student space on their blog to get the word out.
  
  There are already some results on the web about the game if one places the terms dyspraxia and dyscalculia in a search engine box together.
  
  Hope this helps.
  
  Gaston
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  1. 11/30/2009 2:46 PM Mary Riposo wrote:
     Hello Gaston,
     Thanks for the helpful information! I hope that readers will check this out.
     Blessings,
     Mary
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• 11/30/2009 1:41 PM Gaston Couch wrote:
  The answer to the question of whether one can treat a child with autism from a video..........of course.
  
  HOWEVER, our society has become one of the "license" in many places where they don't belong.
  
  For example, it now takes over a year to become a barber, and then one must pass a complex state examination. That may be good for keeping the competition down, and for tax purposes, but I can tell you from experience, it does nothing for the quality of my haircuts.
  
  The same is true in almost every area.
  
  As a society, we have been brainwashed that, unless one has a license, one cannot do much of anything.
  
  EXPERTS often haven't a clue in terms of what might or might not help an autistic child. They are basically just providing informed guesses.
  
  The parent, on the other hand, has powerful tools to work with, starting with being motivated by love.
  
  After that, any educated parent who cares can do a much much better job in the soft sciences addressing his or her own child's condition than the so called EXPERTS.
  
  I am glad that there is a site where a motivated parent can get information to add to what should be already a mountain.
  
  I think such a program could do worlds of good.
  
  On the other hand, the PARENT needs to remain in charge. The EXPERTS can only consult. Parents should not let experts take over treatment.
  
  The same is true for public school instruction, for example.
  
  Any parent who would drop a kid off on the front stoop of a school, kiss the child on the cheek, and then leave that child to the mercy of the EXPERTS, will get exactly what those experts ofttimes deliver, a child alienated from his or her family.
  
  There is nothing NATURAL about children becoming the brats the majority become as teenagers in our society.
  
  That is a result of leaving the experts to take care of the duty that every parent has to his or her children.
  
  When natural affection goes out the window, as it does in "process" schools, the result is a brat.
  
  And, it gets worse at the college level.
  
  Most "enlightenment" professors at the college level are secular atheists, and the orthodoxy on most public college campuses is atheism.
  
  But, again, our society has brainwashed its citizenry into turning their families over to the State employed EXPERTS or experts licensed BY the State.
  
  That was Karl Marx's way of doing things, and we have just gone along with it (stupidly).
  
  So again, is a video service like the one described here helpful.....Most probably YES. But only if parents can get out from under the EXPERT syndrome and do something other than watch football on Sunday afternoons...I love football, as long as my autistic child can enjoy it with me.
  
  New ideas and approaches are always good, even if they are wrong. The parent can then decide that they are wrong for the child.
  
  Parents, STAY IN CHARGE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. However, don't do brain surgery .......yet.
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  1. 11/30/2009 2:50 PM Mary Riposo wrote:
     Hello Gaston,
     I agree that the government is getting out of control about licensing. It seems to come down to money and control in many cases. I also totally agree with you about parents being the experts on their children, and empowering themselves to take the lead in their child's treatment. In fact, if there are readers struggling with this issue, my friend William Stillman has a new book out entitled, "Empowered Autism Parenting" that's available through Amazon. Check it out if this resonates with you!
     Blessings,
     Mary
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